INDIAN HORS
ELA A30
Strandlund
Excerpt from Indian Horse
By Richard Wagamese
Before Reading:
1. Consider: What are the most im
when you spend time wi
people? How would y
people?
hat are the most important relationships in your life? How do you feel
spend time with those people? What are some of your memories with those
How would you feel if you were suddenly cut off or taken away from those
During Reading:
Identify 4 examples of figurative language. You must write the examples and explain
what aspect of figurative language it is.
od is the feeling a piece of literature arouses in the reader: happiness, sadness,
peacefulness etc. What is the mood that this excerpt creates for you as a reader? What
passages of text help to create this mood?
After Reading:
4 Many of the pieces of literature we have examined to date have looked at the landscape
as something to "survive". How is the landscape portrayed differently or similarly in
this excerpt? What does the landscape come to represent in this excerpt? Cite from the
various texts we have examined to date to support your response.
5. Thinking "big picture", how might literature such as this help the Canadian populous to
become more educated about Canada's history and to perhaps be more compassionate